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Historical significance of house named on OSI map?

  • 30-08-2010 11:52pm
    #1
    convert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,339 ✭✭✭


    Not sure if this is the right forum, so mods please feel free to move if necessary.

    I was just looking up our local area on an OSI map online and noticed that our house - XXX Cottage - is specifically named on the map.

    I don't know exactly how old the cottage is, probably eighteenth century at the latest, if I had to hazard a guess. Howevr, having had a quick look at the map I noticed that other houses, which would typically be called 'big' houses, one in particular dating from at least the early eighteenth century, is not named on the map.

    Is there any significance to this? And if so, where would I go to find out more information?

    Any help/suggestions would be appreciated.

    (I've also posted a similar thread in the geography forum).


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  • #2
    convert
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,339 ✭✭✭convert


    Just had a quick look on the 'historic' OSI maps available online and it's also mentioned there, if that's any help?


  • #3
    Johnmb
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,150 ✭✭✭Johnmb


    Just being named on the map doesn't in itself mean anything, other than the people doing the research at the time knew the name. Whether or not it is a listed building won't be impacted by whether or not it is named on any particular OS map.


  • #4
    Aelfric
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 139 ✭✭Aelfric


    convert, you should try and check out the Ordnance Survey letters appropriate to the mapping area concerned. It may well be that when O'Donovan and his team were compiling the OS back in the mid 1800s, that the owner of the house either put them up, or that there were antiquities related to lands attached to that particular house. I've seen many a mention of houses and owners in the OS letters.

    The OSL are available in the National Archives on Bolton St., Dublin, or the University libraries should have copies. Failing these, try the local studies section of your local County Library.


  • #5
    katkin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 185 ✭✭katkin


    The fact that the name of the cottage is recorded suggests that it was geographically significant somehow. It may just have been a well known landmark or it could be a marker of a town boundary. Good advice from last poster there regarding consulting the OS namebooks.


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